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A richly textured book tells a story of love-making and longing, love and reduction, and of the deceit that can rest at the heart of family romantic relationships. “Each section…gets the seductive aura of the finely crafted account. Liars and Saints is instructive and bittersweet and yet in some way never nostalgic” (Los Angeles Times).
Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four decades of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family group driven just as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken custom of deceit is exceeded from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it requires amazing courage and compassion to bring them again jointly.
By converts funny and troubling, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy’s prodigious gifts and of her penetrating information into a fantastic American family and in to the nature of real human love. “Meloy might be the first great American realist of the twenty-first century: The Santerres aren’t real nevertheless they feel like these are, and the reader won't soon neglect them” (The Boston Globe).
